Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

YMSM 148
Nocturne in Blue and Silver

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871/1879
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: probably canvas
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Nocturne in Blue and Silver

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

  • 1884: International and Universal Exhibition, Crystal Palace, London, 1884.

In May 1884 Whistler hurriedly tried to obtain paintings, including Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder [YMSM 203], to submit to the International and Universal Exhibition, Crystal Palace, London, 1884. 1 According to the Manchester Guardian, Whistler's exhibits in an 1884 exhibition, possibly the Crystal Palace exhibition, included a 'Nocturne in blue and silver'. 2

Notes:

1: Whistler to T. Duret, [May 1884], GUW #09641.

2: Anon., ‘The International Exhibition at the Crystal Palace’, The Manchester Guardian, Manchester, 22 May 1884, p. 8; also preserved as a press cutting in GUL Whistler PC 6, p. 52.

Last updated: 23rd November 2020 by Margaret